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In the twilight of his reign, the first and last emperor of Allag, Xande, desired power above all else. He turned to the terrible being known as the Cloud of Darkness, a ruler of the void, and asked of her strength to make the world kneel before his throne with a covenant of blood.

When Xande was slain, his ambitions were laid to rest alongside him. Yet the Cloud of Darkness still seeks to enter the material realm, and will soon find passage through the Voidgate set to manifest within Syrcus Tower. With the fiend's coming, can the fellowship of NOAH brave the void and rescue the three souls able to stem the Cloud's flood of shadows, or will the expedition itself vanish beyond the rift in the World of Darkness?

The first area (referred to as a "trash pool") contains only normal enemies. At first, only three Garms can be found. Each party's tank usually takes on each, although many area-of-effect spells will be cast around the battle, making it important for players to dodge. After the three Garms are defeated, several Two-headed Dragons and Sacrificed Ninjas will spawn. Once defeated, the area will be unsealed, and players can go to The Vista.

This boss is Angra Mainyu, a large Ahriman enemy which has several complex mechanics. Its Double Vision attack is a floor-covering area-of-effect ability that grants a stacking debuff based on whether the player is standing on the red or white area affected. Increased stacks will cause more damage to be dealt every time the player is hit by Double Damage of that color, though being hit by the opposite color of Double Vision the second time will reset the debuff and deal no damage. The Mortal Gaze attack will inflict Doom on any affected player, so players should simply look away from the boss to dodge it (though they can stand on a pad to remove the debuff). Roulette is a spinning attack that will spin around pointing to one of the four quarters of the room, and when stopping will kill all players within it; players should destroy the Final Hourglasses on the outside of the room to stop it earlier, allowing players to avoid the death.

The only other notable aspects to this boss are its Angra Mainyu's Daewa additional enemies spawned which should be killed, and its Level 100 Flare and Level 150 Death attacks. Both form circles that will tether players to one player within them; the former will kill players if the amount of tethered players adds up to an even number, while the latter will kill if the number is a multiple of three. Players should run out to cancel the attack. After Angra Mainyu is defeated, the team can progress.

This next area is another trash pool that contains enemies from Syrcus Tower. Queen Scylla, based on Scylla from Syrcus Tower, has no real enemies that the teams should be concerned about, as Ancient Flare is much weaker than Scylla's Ancient Flare from Syrcus Tower. When Queen Scylla dies, Xande's Clone, based on Xande, will spawn, and similarly is a very simple boss. Additionally, several Forbidden Gates on the outside should be destroyed, to prevent Jormungand and Thor enemies spawned; any of which who do spawn should also be destroyed.

This area contains Five-headed Dragon. It is often useful to tank this enemy to the edge of the area, mostly due to its huge cone area-of-effect attack, White Breath, which deals heavy damage and reduces healing taken. This attack should be avoided at all costs. Another mechanic is the purple mark that the dragon will place on players; dealing major thunder damage, and players should avoid death by grouping up with others to spread damage. Poison Slime enemies spawning should be killed immediately, to prevent them from forming into more powerful Toxic Slime enemies. Red birds tether to players, but can be removed by passing by another player giving them the debuff.

Ice puddles will spawn, inflicting Freeze on any player standing within them. Another mechanic, Heatwave, affects all players with a debuff that will damage them over time for five seconds. Players should simply avoid using abilities until it wears off. The final and most important attack is Discordance. The Head of Fire, Head of Ice, Head of Thunder and Head of Poison become targetable, and should be destroyed to prevent Discordance being used, which can potentially kill every player.

The final trash pool, three platforms are scattered throughout this player, which contain two tiers. The parties are assigned to one. The Howling Atomos, Moaning Atomos and Roaring Atomos each occupy one of these, and will receive power from the Prime Atomos in the center which no party can directly attack. The top tier has several pads to activate the jump pads for the tier below, which allows them to jump back up if knocked down. The Atomos will use Devour, which will mark a single player and pull them in to render them unable to move and then spit them out to the bottom tier. To avoid this, all party members should run to the opposite side of the player, while the player should jump down to avoid being devoured, and jump back up using a pad. Atomos will also cast Shockwave which will knock off players too close to the edge; players should stand closer to Atomos to avoid this. It will also spawn a Sacrificed Soldier which should be killed, and several burning area-of-effect attacks which should be dodged. The Atomos Prime in the center will be killed when it has revived the other surrounding Atomos too many times at the expense of itself, allowing all players to proceed to the next boss.

Plutonium features the penultimate boss, Cerberus. Cerberus will use Tail Swipe, a cone area-of-effect attack that affects all behind him and adds stacks reducing their blunt resistance, causing this ability to deal more damage the more players are hit with it. When unchained, Cerberus will continuously stack Haste on himself, and should be fettered to prevent this. He will then drop a Gastric Juice and Slabber. Players should stand in the Gastric Juice area to be affected with Minimum, which will reduce their damage and shrink them, but mean that when they stand in the Slabber and are eaten by Cerberus, they will enter his stomach (whereas doing this without Minimum will kill them). However, several Wolfsbane adds will spawn around the Slabber that can kill players with Minimum, so ranged DPS and off-tanks should kill Wolfsbane. The players who enter Cebrerus' stomach must kill the Stomach Walls to cause him to slump to the ground, while also killing Unknown enemies within his stomach which threaten to stop players from doing so. After all Stomach Walls are destroyed, Cerberus will take massive damage and slump to the ground. This will repeat itself only once before the next area is unlocked.

The final area features the most difficult boss in the raid, the Cloud of Darkness. The Cloud of Darkness has high HP, and is found around the edges of the arena where she randomly shows up after a time. As such, tanks can only manipulate who she damages as opposed to where she moves. When she does move to a new area, she will fire Zero-Form Particle Beam in a line in directly in front of her which should be dodged, it will add Vulnerability Up and multiple hits can kill. She will randomly also target a player with Feint Particle Beam, a series of beams that follows the player until it runs out. Cloud of Darkness occasionally becomes invulnerable and spawn Dark Clouds and Dark Storms which should be destroyed, because if they reach her they will buff her damage to a point that can wipe the raid.

Occasionally she summons comets in areas, which healers should stand in to take the damage to prevent it from affecting too many targets. Shadowlurkers may spawn and inflict multiple negative statuses, but can be moved back with a single hit. The final mechanic is the three Hypercharged Clouds which spawn in the arena; each party should move to attack the one assigned to them immediately (or whichever is closest if they cannot reach their party) as they will be sealed outside, and once trapped inside must kill it as it can otherwise wipe the raid.